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Inventor:

J. WORMLEY. Eife Saving Apparatus.

' Patented Ma (No Model.)

Witnesses: Ma a 6M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES WORMLEY, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION" forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,091, dated May 24,1881,

- Application filed March 11, 1881. (N0 model.) i

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES WORMLEY, ofWashington, District of Columbia, have invented an Improvement inLife-Saving Apparatus for Ships, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention consists in a float or a number of floats attached to thefree end of a rope, which at that end has one or more eyes and runs outas the ship moves through the water, in combination with a lock andcast-oft mechanism consisting, essentially, ofa sliding rod at the shipsside, provided with projecting arms, which, in their normal position,are passed through each-an eye in the rope, but which disengagetherefrom by a movement of the sliding rod which is controlled, throughsuitable intervening mechanism, by a hand-lever near the ships wheel.

For the greater efiiciency of the apparatus it is duplicated, that astring of floats-may be detached from vither or both sides of thevessel.

In the drawings, Figure l is an upperdeck plan of a propeller embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of such propeller. Fig. 3 is asectional elevation on line :10 .r of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectionalelevation on line cc cc of Fig. 3. Fig. 5is a cross-section on line 9000 of Fig. 3.

A is the ships hull, B the bulwarks, O the upper deck, and I) the wheel.E E, two vertical drums.

F F, &c., are floats attached, as shown, to the ropes a a, splicedportions of which, i'ur- 'nished with eyes b, pass through holes cin theships bulwarks.

R R are wire rods on the inner side of the hulwarks, al'ongeither sideof the ship, and having a longitudinal sliding motion in eyebolts d.Near each hole 0 they are provided with heu't projecting arms or hooksl, of smaller wire, the free ends ofwhich pass through smaller eyeboltsm, and also through the eyes b of the ropes a. The length of each hooklis such that when the arm, partaking of the motion of its rod R, isdrawn back it slips from its eye I) in the rope.

S is a fixed shaft below the upper deck, near the stern of the vessel,as shown. At either end it has a sleeve, 8, an arm, 10, projecting fromwhich, through the deck near the butwarks, is connected by a link, t,with one of the rods R, while a hand-lever, L, also rigidly connectedwith the sleeve, projects through the deck near the wheel, as shown,or-at some place where a watch is constantly required.

I claim In a life-saving apparatus, the combination, with the floats F,having their rope a twisted and passed into sleeves or tubes 0 in thesides or bnlwarks of t he vessel, of the sliding rods R, adapted to beconnected to mechanism for giving them their slitting motion, and havingelbow-arms l supportedin eyes or brackets m, and passed through theloops of the twisted and sleeved portions of the rope a, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES WORMLEY.

Witnesses W. W. SWAN. D. REITENHOUSE.

